• Conducted 2+ Know Your Rights presentations and 24+ legal screenings per week in Spanish for Central American and Mexican unaccompanied migrant children detained at US Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters across South Texas.

• Offered post-release orientations and legal referrals for migrant children’s sponsors. Advocated for the enrollment of released migrant children in schools and in medical services. Collectivo Vida Digna Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Returned Youth Support Intern, 40hrs/week May – Aug. 2012

• Assisted lead Social Worker with his caseload of families of youth deported from the US, drafted home visit reports and needs assessments. Assisted youth clients in applying for scholarships and developing micro-entrepreneurial plans.

• Collaboratively organized the first Kids in Need of Defense Guatemala conference, which resulted in a country-wide coalition of NGOs serving the growing population of deported Guatemalan migrant youth. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Dr. Jason de León, U-M Dept. of Anthropology Arivaca, AZ

• Collected and catalogued material artifacts in migrant hiking trails along the Arizona/Sonora border. June 2018